Not long ago, Uncle Terrier took everyone to briefly review the domestic martial arts films of the 80s of the last century, which were very popular! Here we will make a similar theme - the "Shaolin Temple" movie of the 80s.
In fact, before Jet Li starred in "Shaolin Temple", Hong Kong produced a large number of "Shaolin Temple" theme films, such as "Shaolin Wooden Lane" starring Jackie Chan, "Shaolin and Wudang" starring Qian Xiaohao and others, "Shaolin Thirty-Six Rooms" starring Liu Jiahui, and "Three Breaks into Shaolin" starring Er Dongsheng. It's just that these films were difficult for mainland audiences to see at that time.
Shaolin Wooden Man Alley
After jet Li's version of "Shaolin Temple" fire, the mainland set off a Wave of Shaolin Temple-themed movie fever, Jet Li himself successively starred in "Shaolin Kid" and "North and South Shaolin", synthesizing the "Shaolin Trilogy". In addition, the following five films are also the "Shaolin Temple" theme works of the same era.
Huang Qiuyan in "Shaolin Kid"
1. "Kapok Robes"
Uncle Terrier believes that this film is the only "Shaolin Temple" movie in the 1980s that can be compared with Jet Li's "Shaolin Trilogy". Xu Xiaoming, the director of "Kapok Robes", has successfully directed the sensational TV series "Huo Yuanjia" before, which is his first time to shoot in the mainland. The film includes Xu Xiangdong, Lin Qiuping and many other professional martial arts athletes, Yu Rongguang, who studied Peking Opera, played the main villain in the film, and a horse war scene between him and Xu Xiangdong is still impressive. After "Kapok Robes", director Xu Xiaoming was very appreciative of Rongguang, and cooperated with him in "Mirage", and Yu Rongguang gradually stood out from the show business circle.
2. "Disciples of Shaolin Temple"
The year after Jet Li's "Shaolin Temple" was released, Hong Kong and mainland production companies launched this "Shaolin Temple Disciple", which is obviously a follow-up work, telling the story of a pair of art-selling women who avenge their father. From today's point of view, the film was quite roughly made, with logical hard wounds from beginning to end, but in that era, it was very popular. The heroine is Ding Lan, the heroine of "Shaolin Temple", who was also very popular in the 80s, and later naturalized in Singapore, nearly 20 years before Jet Li.
3. "Shaolin Lay Disciples"
A rather interesting kung fu comedy about the male protagonist who runs to the Shaolin Temple to become a layman's disciple in order to escape marriage, which triggers a series of ironic adventure stories. The male protagonist of this film is not well known, but the two heroines, He Qing and Ding Lan, are both first-class beauties. Playing the male protagonist in the film is the famous actor Zhao Xiaorui, who later starred in CCTV's "Water Margin", and He Qing starred as Li Shishi in this drama. The director of "Shaolin LayMan's Disciple" is Shao's famous director Hua Shan, and Zhang Guorong's "Yang Guo and the Little Dragon Girl" is directed by him.
4. "Shaolin Boy Gong"
It tells the story of the battle of wits and courage between several Shaolin Xiao Shami and the violent Xiaofu King in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, which is somewhat similar to another movie at that time, "Heroes from Ancient Times". The plot of the whole movie has been difficult to remember, but the "whirlwind legs" of Xiao Fu Wang in the film, the "boy worshiping the Buddha" of Xiao Shami who hit his head on the ground, there are still some impressions to this day, and there is also the dubbing of Tong Zirong, which will never be forgotten.
5. "Desperate Life"
The plot has a bit of a historical interpretation: during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, the great general Nian Qianyao was given death by the emperor, in order to cut the grass and remove the roots, the emperor ordered his henchmen to cut the Nian family full of doors, but the commander of the Imperial Forest Army who was on the mission admired Nian Qianyao, so he risked to save Nian's children. Nian Zi came to Southern Shaolin to study art, Nian Nu was accidentally rescued by the Wudang men, and later because she was trapped, she confessed to being a thief as her father, and the two brothers and sisters finally met in a blood and fire massacre... The story is quite wonderful, just a fight scene, lack of a sense of power, but this can be regarded as a popular movie at the time, as long as the TV station broadcast, the children are the New Year.
In addition to the above five "Shaolin Temple" films, there was also a co-production called "Eight Hundred Arhats" in the 80s, which sounds related to the "Shaolin Temple", but in fact, the "Luohan" in the film comes from a thousand-year-old temple called "Bao'en Temple", which seems to be a fictional place.
In addition, which domestic films or co-productions in the 80s are related to the "Shaolin Temple"? Welcome to exchange and discuss together!
Author: Dr. Movie Terrier, please do not reprint it at will.